Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-27
FORESTRY.
NORTH CAROLINA aspRxsRNrArrvEs
TO rHK soUrHERN CONGRESS.
TIE Fertilizer Law Seizure Of Goods
Barns Burned-Personsl and
Political Notes.
rsnoolal iolegram % the pIspa,ch.l

Especial telegram TO the Dispatch-i
RALK1aH, n. c., September 3d.
Governor Scales to-day appointed the
following delegates 10 represent North
Carolina at the Southern Forestry
Congress at Huntsville, Ala, October
Goth: A. b. Chaplin, Aurora II. II.
Lewis, Raleigh; Hugh Leach, Car
thage A. @. Dunn, Wake Forest II.
l.. Fries, Salem; w. j. Yates, Char
lotto; Theodore +. Kluts. Salisbury
j. NJ. cNnnaly, Connaly's Spring Nat.
Atkinson, Asheville.
The Supreme Court began n fall term
this morning. Chief Justice Smith is
at New York for special medical treat
ment. Justices Merrimon and Davis
we've on the bench to-day. The entire
day was devoted to the examination OF
thirty-fye applicants for license as at
torneys. The Chief Justice is expected
to return in day or two.
To-day John Robinson, Commits
sioner OF Agriculture, received letter
from member Of the Georgia Legis-
lature, stating that the Legislative COM
mittee by a practically unanimous vote
had decided 10 adopt the North Caro-
lima plan for regulating the sale of fer
tilizeIs. In reply to an inquiry as to
the practical working and benefits of
the North Carolina system, Commits
sionor Robinson says last year it saved
the farmers of the State one million
dollars, and that under its provisions
they secured a grade of fertilizers one
sixth better. The system gives the
least trouble to manufacturers, farmers,
and officers OF the department. At the
next session OF the Legislature here
Commissioner Robinson says he
will secure more thorough
policing or protecting feature in the
net. His desire is TO secure uniform
law in all the southern Atlantic States,
which plan will be beneficial TO all con
cerned. II is his purpose, he informs
me, TO call meeting OF all Commits
sioners of Agriculture and Secretaries
OF those States, to be held at Atlanta,
to discuss and secure uniform law on
the subject. The Department of Agri-
culture has seized and to-day ordered
the sale OF carload Of commercial
ltlkllEtihs ut StiLNit WHO liit'lt az
Winston. The Commissioner of Agri-
culture says the firm is bringing fer
tilizers into the State without license,
aud selling it to unsuspecting dealers
and farmers, who think it is tax-paid
goods. This will get dealers and farm
ers into trouble, as the law makes it
penal to handle such goods. The de
partment will fight the firm in earnest.
The proceeds of such sales Of seized fer
filters go to thedepartment Another
seizure was to-day reported Of the same
firms goods at Staley.
The Baptists of North Carolina are
manifesting particular interest Just now
in Wake-Forest College, and they have
every reason to he proud Of that insti
tuition ana in its success. Since its
foundation in 1884 70 instructors and
., 400 students have been connected
with it. light of the graduates have
been college presidents and a much
larger number have filed professors
chairs in various Institutions. It's en-
dowment. amounting et the close OF the
war 10 $ll.70O, Is now SlGS,O0j, the
greater part Of which has been col
lectod since 1852. Two of the present
faculty sre native Virginians. Rev. Dr.
Charles T. Taylor, the president WAS
reared in Richmond, attended Eich-
nond College, and afterwards took his
degree at the University Of Virginia.
Professor Luther Il. Mills. OF the chair
Of Pure Mathematics, was reared in
Halifax county, Va, and graduated at
Wake Forest IN 1851. The president
and faculty are earnest workers, and
are making the influence OF the college
felt al over North Carolina. Many im-
prOvemcuts have bleu made 80 De col
lcge. Ire chemical laboratory Is near
ing completion. it is handsome
building seen without, but IS still more
SO in the interior, when considered N
tie light OF its purpose. It has front
of1Ot feet, the central portion being two
stories in height. The estimated cost,
not including the apparatus, which IS
Ordered from Germany, Is $4,000.
The largest subscription TO its. ODD
WAS made by Mr.. :. ). Lea, vi CasweH
county, and the laboratory wall De
called by his name. 1t Is probably tue
best college laboratory in tue South.
There Is some talk OF crectinga biology
cal lalsratoiy in Il lew Yeas. A con-
siderar4e ADDITION tothe apparatus OF the
SCI DOL Of Natural History has Just been
made. The coil ~ library contains
&C. volumes, and the IcadinS-rOOm Is
sunplied with the best OF current iitera-
TUE. The number Of nov students is
tic largest in Tie history OF tine college
7 orty in the lowest Greek class is con-
tideIed good sign OF serious inten-
tons.
The work Of tho State Shell-ish Com
mission, created 10y the last Legisla-
tune, has been completed. The report
will he published this week. 1t will be
quite lengthy. The law goes into effect
the 2Cth OF October The report will
he published in newspapers, beginning
next Wednesday.
Three tobacco barns are reported as
burned in Person county in one night.
Tie owners were Calvin Jones, William
Irvine, and Il. u. Staufield.
The 500 tons OF steel rails which
are being landed at Wilmington for the
tlttlt cur ulAl hAAAf AhAAN"'
will be used in completing it to Mount
Airy.
a very great want OF interest is felt
and shown in the Lee-mOnument cele-
brat:on, and North Carolina, to Use the
popular phrase, Twill be there. % The
military generally are falling in line,
and II appears to be pretty certain that
the twenty companies promised will be
there. The attendance OF the general
public will unQucstionably be very
large.
The town Of Rutherfordton has fallen
in line in the matter of public improve
ments and has voted handsome SUN
for making its streets what they should
be. One OF the best signs Of North
Cardinals progress is this sort of enter
prise on the part of cities and towns.
In the last campaign one wing OF the
Republican party had no end OF q row
with the Mott faction, and tried TO down
~. \ 4 Mott Of Statewide who is